Dr. Matt Pagano

04/16/2026

Stress causes tension and pain in your body.
Chiropractic care can help release it and restore balance!

03/06/2026

There are no shortcuts. You simply have to put the work in. Either physical health or brain health:

BREAKING: MIT hooked people up to brain scanners while they used ChatGPT.

What they found should concern every single person reading this.

ChatGPT users showed 55% weaker brain connectivity than people who didn't use it. Not after years. After just four months.

Here's how they tested it. 54 people were split into three groups: one used ChatGPT to write essays, one used Google, and one used nothing but their own brain. They wore EEG monitors that tracked their brain activity in real time across four sessions over four months.

The brain-only group built the strongest, most widespread neural networks. Google users were in the middle. ChatGPT users had the weakest brains in the room. Every time.

Then the memory test hit. Participants were asked to recall what they'd just written minutes earlier. 83% of ChatGPT users couldn't quote a single line from their own essay. They wrote it. They couldn't remember it. The words passed through them like they were never there.

It gets worse. In the final session, ChatGPT users were told to write without AI. Their brains were measurably weaker than people who never used AI at all. 78% still couldn't recall their own writing. The damage didn't go away when the tool was removed.

Meanwhile, brain-only users who tried ChatGPT for the first time? Their brains lit up. They wrote better prompts. They retained more. Their brains were already strong enough to use AI as a tool instead of a crutch.

The researchers also found that every ChatGPT essay on the same topic looked almost identical. More facts, more dates, more names. But less original thinking. Everyone using ChatGPT produced the same generic output while believing it was their own.

MIT gave this a name: cognitive debt. Like financial debt, you borrow convenience now and pay with your thinking ability later. Except there's no way to pay it back.

The question isn't whether ChatGPT is useful. It's whether the price is your ability to think without it.

05/25/2023

It's SO much more than just calories. STAY AWAY from processed foods. Read this!

Sure, they're tasty, but packaged snacks and meals can be packed with sugar, salt and a list of unpronounceable ingredients. So what are they doing to your health? Scientists are trying to find out.

05/17/2023

Get your teens off the phone and out of social media:

Many parents are worried about their kids losing themselves for hours on their phones. Turns out, teens are troubled too. But they also know a lot about how to get unhooked. Here's how they do it.

04/06/2023

In other news... water is wet!

A large study has found links between added sugar consumption and 45 negative health outcomes. Here's how to reduce your intake.

02/14/2022

Increasingly so, this is being understood as something MUCH worse than a respiratory virus:

Questions arise as to whether COVID-19 could be spread by semen. If larger studies support the conclusions, the findings could have implications for reproductive health.

01/31/2021

So many of my patients come to me with musculoskeletal pain, quite often chronic in nature. When I can, I always try to have a conversation with them to correlate their diet with their symptoms. This video is 15 minutes and makes the case perfectly. I urge you to take the time to watch it and perhaps use it to support any healthy choices and changes you've made. So much of what hurts can be reduced simply through diet. Just say no to sugar!

This does not mean you should never eat sugar, it means you should not OVEReat sugar, which most Americans do.For my books, supplements and more information ...

01/06/2021

More evidence that COVID isn’t simply a respiratory illness and that recovery may not be straightforward:

Severe cases of COVID-19 can injure the brain in ways that affect memory, thinking and mood for months after the infection is gone, new research hints. It may even raise the risk of Alzheimer's.

12/16/2020

Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine

Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine

12/13/2020

I keep hammering away on this...take your Vitamin D! Preventative against COVID and helps lessen the duration and severity of the infection if you should get it.

Patients admitted to hospital with severe COVID-19 and vitamin D deficiency showed a 3.7-fold increased odds of death. Men in the advanced stages of COVID-19 pneumonia had the greatest deficit.